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Webster 1913 Edition
Cockshut
Cock′shutˊ
,Noun.
A kind of net to catch woodcock.
[Obs.]
Nares.
Cockshut time
or Cockshut light
evening twilight; nightfall; – so called in allusion to the tome at which the cockshut used to be spread.
[Obs.]
Shak. B. Jonson.
Webster 1828 Edition
Cockshut
COCKSHUT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
cockshut
cockshut
English
Noun
cockshut (plural cockshuts)
- (obsolete) A kind of net for catching woodcock.
- (obsolete) Twilight, when woodcock would be caught.
- 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Richard the Third, act 5, scene 3:
- Sir Richard Ratcliff: Thomas the Earl of Surrey, and himself,
Much about cock-shut time, from troop to troop
Went through the army, cheering up the soldiers.
- Sir Richard Ratcliff: Thomas the Earl of Surrey, and himself,
- 1603, Ben Jonson, The Satyr:
- 1 Fai.: Mistress, this is only spite:
For you would not yesternight
Kiss him in the cock-shut light.
- 1 Fai.: Mistress, this is only spite:
- 1593, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Richard the Third, act 5, scene 3: